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Metamaterial vs Nanostructure - What's the difference?

metamaterial | nanostructure |

As nouns the difference between metamaterial and nanostructure

is that metamaterial is any material that obtains its electromagnetic properties from its structure rather than from its chemical composition; especially a material engineered to have features of a size less than that of the wavelength of a class of electromagnetic radiation while nanostructure is any manufactured structure having a scale between molecular and microscopic.

metamaterial

English

Noun

(wikipedia metamaterial) (en noun)
  • (engineering, physics) any material that obtains its electromagnetic properties from its structure rather than from its chemical composition; especially a material engineered to have features of a size less than that of the wavelength of a class of electromagnetic radiation
    • Metamaterials

    nanostructure

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any manufactured structure having a scale between molecular and microscopic.

    • Related terms

    *nanofabrication *nanotechnology

    See also

    *nano-